Remote Atlassian, good or bad?

Apr 21 18 Comments

Calling out to people at @Atlassian that either work remote or work frequently with someone that is remote - how well is "Team Anywhere" working?

I'm east coast US, but not commuting distance to NYC, and considering an offer that would have me fully remote working with people across US time zones (but mostly Pacific Time) and Sydney; hiring manager has said I would still work east coast hours, but I worry about being pulled in to working late nights for more overlap.

Anyone in a similar situation, or know a coworker who is?

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  • Lovin it and not going back to in-office jobs. As others mentioned, you own your own schedule & it’s not like they track keystrokes or some bs.

    Since I joined, I have not set an alarm to wake up in the morning (no meetings before 10 am); I go to bed & get up just naturally without worrying about making it somewhere on time. Want to take a 3 hr lunch to drive a little further out? Wanna sign off early? Wanna drive your family/friend somewhere during business hours? Doctor’s appointment? No problem, just deliver whatever I’m working on on time (and they give you a lot of time to get it done).

    People in different timezones? No problem, most work can be done asynchronously & any collaboration that requires more “in-person” can be a Zoom meeting. Slack messages can be scheduled & notifications paused; you can specify your work hours in Google calendar & people won’t expect you to attend meetings outside of that. Meetings with Sydney can be “tough” because 10am in Sydney is 8 pm ET, but if your HM is saying you don’t need to worry about it, it’s not gonna be an issue. Important meetings have recordings or keynotes sent out afterwards, anyway.

    Life is good, stress-free. Project progress feels a little slow sometimes (compared to previous FAANG job), since no one pressures anyone to get something done quickly lol. My teammates are all very motivated so we get things done really early & then coast until the next one starts 😎
    Apr 21 7
  • It's great. I only work outside normal working hours by choice but it's more cause sometimes I will not do much early in the day. Ultimately you make you own schedule. There's no micromanagement, the only thing that's measured is results. WLB is prioritized over everything else and I think we've been really successful in doing so. Things still get done at a fairly fast pace but by people willingly choosing to do so, not because of a toxic cutthroat culture. You can choose the hours that work best for you but as long as you have some overlap with your team it shouldn't be an issue. A lot of teams do a lot of async communication over slack so it's easy to catch up on what you missed while offline.
    Apr 21 1
  • I am in India and work with Sydney quite regularly and at times with US. They never expected me to work outside working hours.
    Atleast, for me, experience has been pretty good
    Apr 21 2
  • It’s great and the executives are aware it’s the future of the company. Half of our hires recently have been located away from Atlassian offices.

    The only time I’ve seen people work odd hours due to time differences is, for example, someone on my US based team traveling to India for a few weeks and working from there. He was on at some weird hours to align with the rest of us.
    Apr 21 0
  • Work from anywhere is awesome, lots of freedom to manage your own schedule.

    On the downside, some teams have large footprint in India which requires lots of late evenings and early mornings.
    Apr 22 0